C·SOURCE: instrument for e-sourcing
C·SOURCE Workspace
Digital communication is playing an increasingly large role in day-to-day business. Fax and telephone are gradually being replaced by e-mail and the Internet. The C·SOURCE workspace takes purchasing to the next level by means of fully integrated digital communication in your purchasing activities. This leads to improved productivity and quality in your activities. You only need to log in to the workspace once to get the support of a variety of purchasing activities. Thus, with a single action, through the use of templates, you can generate a complete plan for your purchasing projects - not only efficient and flawless but you and your colleagues make optimum use of the purchasing expertise on hand.
Communication with C·SOURCE is equally efficient. With the use of contact groups you simultaneously inform all parties involved without risk of omissions. The workspace is the portal to your purchasing tools, including requests for information, scorecards, performance surveys (vendors), auctions, contract information, and quote requests. With the results you continuously add to a digital archive, thus providing you with all the needed information on a single screen. In purchasing, insight is key. With C·SOURCE everything falls into place.
e-RFx Management
C·SOURCE is the Commerce-hub tool with which you continuously improve your purchasing processes. With C·SOURCE you structure and simplify your requests for and processing of information from (potential) suppliers. You broaden your purchasing market scope by being able to look up and evaluate more options, thus creating new opportunities for your organisation.
Suppliers are digitally invited to participate in a tender process. C·SOURCE allows for extremely flexible definitions of your requests for quotes and information and is suitable for all types, from RFI, RFQ, and RFP to complete BOMs. All your invitations are defined in the same clear way in the particular style of your company, so your suppliers receive clear requests and you get complete and comparable responses in return.
e-BID Manager
Commerce-hub introduces E·BID manager, the first solution to support the request for quotations process from A to Z via internet. While traditional ‘Fax & Mail’ solutions only enhance the speed of your communication, C·SOURCE E·BID Manager gives you control and overview of all your Requests for quotations. You are able to develop a digital archive and a library for your best practices instantaneously. And at any given moment you can check the status of your current requests for all vendors.
Commerce-hub has streamlined requests for quotations without changing the actual process substantially. You generate and issue professional requests in your own format, with your own look and feel. (e.g. company logo and colours). You can incorporate your current Excel sheets effortlessly. Potential suppliers can fill in an easy-to-use price sheet and are amply instructed by a complete set of information (e.g. invitations, manuals etc.)
You receive all your answers in a single reply overview with all the information conveniently lined up without having to cut and paste. Suppliers can add additional information to the price sheet in attachments. For further analysis you can export all your replies with a single action to an MS-Excel sheet. When you have come to your decision, you can inform the outcome to all suppliers quickly and conveniently from within your own working environment.
C·SOURCE E·BID Manager is successfully used in many working environments. Not only by buyers in a wide range of industries, but also by construction cost experts, planners and designers in the engineering industry. In the public sector E·BID Manager is used as a tool for limited tenders. In short: E·BID Manager provides an internet working environment in which everybody can manage request for quotations with ease and in complete control.